Dmitriy Zaporozhets
Europe, United States
Summary
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RockstarDmytro Zaporozhets is a Ruby on Rails developer and co‑founder of GitLab with 14 years of experience blending hands‑on back-end engineering and platform leadership. He served as GitLab’s CTO and later Engineering Fellow, driving core infrastructure—from SSH/key management and git-lfs/auth to Kubernetes cluster automation and CI/CD integrations. An active open-source contributor, Dmytro has strengthened testing and buildpack tooling in projects like herokuish, improved Ruby LDAP robustness, and implemented production-ready features in gitlab-shell and gitlabhq. Based in Ukraine with a bachelor's in Automotive Engineering, he brings a practical, systems-level perspective that surfaces in his focus on automation, reliability, and developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (38)
database-migrations10
git10
ldap10
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
rails10
ruby10
ubuntu10
gitlab10
automation10
script10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/gitlab-shell
Feb 2013 - Feb 2018
Replacement for gitolite. This repo is a mirror of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-shell/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:332 commits, 4 PRs, 37 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dmitriy contributed significantly to the GitLab shell project, focusing on back-end functionalities. They implemented core features for managing SSH keys, including adding, removing, and batch adding keys to the authorized_keys file. The user also worked on integrating git-annex support, requiring modifications to command parsing and execution. Furthermore, the user refactored the codebase, added features to interact with a Redis queue for the post-receive hook, and introduced support for git-lfs-authenticate.
gitoliteshellreplacementgitlab
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
Oct 2011 - Sep 2019
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13201 commits, 162 PRs, 1438 pushes in 8 years
Contributions summary:Dmitriy primarily contributed to the development of features related to managing and scheduling Kubernetes cluster installations. The commits focused on refactoring code for cluster installations and creating skeleton classes, adding OAuth references, and integrating with Gitlab and JupyterHub. The work involved modifying existing services and controllers, and creating new models, as well as database migrations.
gitlab-apinew-issuestrackerrailsgitea
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